Prosecutors had told the jury that Tchelakov was negligent when he left his 1-year-old boy strapped in a car seat with the windows up while he was drinking at a Fairfax bar on Labor Day. Temperatures that day rose into the 80s.

The baby, who did not require hospitalization, was eventually picked up by his mother.

The newspaper says that Tchelakov will remain in jail as he fights a federal immigration hold.